canonnier
\ka.nɔ.nje\
The verdict
“canonnier” is uncommon French (frequency #57,808 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,808
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat ou marin qui est chargé de servir une pièce de canon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canonnier · canonnier · French
canonnier · rank #57,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,808
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canonisé
Nearest frequency peer: canonisé (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « canonnier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cami
cami
42,196 corpus weight
- camélias
camélias
42,195 corpus weight
- canonisé
canonisé
42,194 corpus weight
- canonnier
canonnier
42,193 corpus weight
- capoeira
capoeira
42,192 corpus weight
- capra
capra
42,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canonnier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canonnier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nɔ.nje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canonnier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canonnier is uncommon French at frequency #57,808 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.nɔ.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for canonnier, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is canonnier, spelled C-A-N-O-N-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Soldat ou marin qui est chargé de servir une pièce de canon.
- 2Préposé au tir des mines ; boutefeu.
- 3Joueur de football qui tire très fort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how canonnier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; presque en même un canonnier, dont la pièce battait le long du fossé, tire, et, d’un premier coup, renverse et brise toutes les échelles.
Les canonniers qui gardaient l'Hôtel de Ville se dispersèrent en apprenant que les troupes conventionnelles avançaient.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).